Good morning,
I'm wondering where to find antique Irish knife reference. I just cannot find any info. I believe Ireland has banned knife ownership am I right?

Pleased to meet you Terry. Welcome aboard!

No he does good work- the art that is. Please don't be offended that I deleted it. We do have some younger folks here and they visit my page to comment back from my welcomes.
Glad you got the pic thing figured out. Yeah, the long string of code is the photo and when you click to "add" discussion or reply it turns into a pic :)

Terry at the moment I am doing both boomerangs and knife making but hope to go over to Knives full time and still do other crafts on the side.
Thanks for your positive comments.

thank you for the introduction i am just getting into scuba so i thought i would join your group

Terry you sure have some great pictures and some awesome knives!!

Terry, I know what you mean and I have a few low-end but vintage, but I just can't stay away from those Stag Scale knives! LOL I will mainly buy what catches my eye, but I do stay with knives $150 or less price range.

Hi Terry .. nice group !! repair/restoration !! Within the grp discussion, I posted a link to an informative tutorial posted by a fellow iKC member .. Daniel Howland .. I believe you'll find it interesting !! Dale.

well .. sorta .. putting together a DDR2 @ the moment..

.. have been enthusiastically unsuccessful @ re-pinning slipjoints back together though .. tis why I found Daniel's tutorial so interesting !!

Hi Terry, how's the wire inlay coming along? I have just come across this site www.centercross.com. They sell instuctional video's. They have, what seems to be, a very nice one on wire inlay. Thought you would be interested.
Best wishes, Stefan

Wow, your wire inlay looks good. Keep it up
Stefan

Yes, they'r all my own.

Piha Kaetta is from Ceylon (Sri Lanka). There is something similar in Piha Kaetta and your Barong. You have beutiful knives.

thanks man...you too

Terry,
The generous response to my first question certainly led me to beleive I had found the right group of folks to help. Thank you all again. And thanks for the warm generous welcome

Hey Terry ..
That "Roger" you found .. check the tang stamp .. it's not by chance "Restore Me" over "PLS, U.S.A." is it .. a rare find dude !!!!

..."Roger" was laser...

..does that mean you had to give it back :(

..was kidding on the stamping .. figured it would be ideal for your next restoration project ..

Thank you.
Take care.
bvw

Hey Terry, I just read a post of yours on the sharpening section about you having difficulties maintaining a constant angle.

If this is still a problem I wish to offer my help. I polish HRC 62 up to 69, flat bevel tools every day by hand.

 

I'm also looking at your pics and I have to ask, are you a restoration lion (the kind that hunts collection pieces).

May I ask what your main tools are? I take it that you work mainly with stones and compounds (like rust removers, abrasive powders etc etc, all the stuff that goes into restoring).

 

The very hardest thing to make on a stone is a perfect belly. It depends if you meant a single or double bevel because the second option is much more easy. On the first one you basically have to step into the hardest sharpening process in the world, combining tangents into one single flush bevel.

 

I take it you aren't working with single bevel tools however so that shouldn't be a problem. I would say that you need a good bevel gauge (if you don't already have one) and some tips of how to work on the stones.

If you want to I am more than happy to share what I can with you (so far 1 out of 50 has listened to me about sharpening, the rest are hellbent on powertools. Sorry to ask such a question but it's frustrating to type up long replies only to have them land on uninterested eyes). Basically what I specialize in is perfection polishing, I have two separate rooms when I polish to keep out coarse particles from the foundation stage (shaping and sharpening stage) when I move to the polishing stage. At that point it's all cosmetic polish, way beyond functional sharpness (20k grit plus, natural stone ofcourse).

 

Tell me what you think and if you like it we can start sorting out your problem of getting flush bevels. Once you get the feeling for it then it will be there. Similar to riding a bicycle, when you develop that "sense" you feel exactly where the steel is touching the stone and can literally ride it in any direction, at any part of the stone.

The stage after that is how to wear down a stone evenly so that you don't have to dress them - saves material and time, but we'll get to that later :)

Oh, just a FAST fix for your recurve blades. Get a cheap synthetic stone, cut it into finger stones (whatever size you will be able to hold securely in your hand). Do it with a small hammer and a knife with a flat belly unless you have a rock-splitting chisel or stone saw and then just tap it slowly into the stone. Eventually it will break in two, try to keeps the taps controlled and make sure the force is constant at the same angle, you don't want to switch angle inside the stone.

 

After that you can get a Belgian Coticule bout stone along with some finger stones to get the slurry up. I can recommend many other stones but it depends on the kind of finish and action you want from the stone. The reason why is because coticule also works great for restoration, because they consist of garnets they cut differently than other stones. So, if you grind it down into a powder, apply some water and dip your fingertip in the powder and then rub on the steel, you have full control of how much good vs bad oxidized steel you remove with the addition that the garnets won't leave scratches because of their round shape (perfect for restoring filemarks or details like stamps too).

 

Now I'm off to deal with my bloody 17-pack of chisels I have to restore. Blargh, some stuff are 80-100 years old, the steel has become insanely hard from age-hardening! Most chisels are aged for a max of 20-30 years. Boy it's harsh to bring these puppies out, but it will be worth every second after it's all done.

 

Hope to talk to you soon

Regards Hal

thanks terry nice to be friends with you.this is a great site i you learn alot here and meet good people at the same time...

terry i have a sister that lives in salem or.is that far from you? she is secartary of state..

terry thats cool. my brother is the manager of a big subaru store at the auto mall in ohio.

Terry,

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